Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; With His Vision of the Angelic World Volume 3

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...that whenever these quarrelsome Christians come, by persecution or any other incident, to be thus reconciled in their charity, they find always a great deal to ask pardon of one another for with respect to what is past; all their violence, heat of zeal, and much more heat of passion, all their breach of charity, their reproaches and censures and hard words, which have passed between them, will only then serve to bring them together with more affection, and to embrace more warmly; for, depend upon it, all the differences in religion among good men (for I do not mean essential, doctrinal, and fundamental differences), serve only to make them all ashamed of themselves at last. Of the wonderful Excellency of Negative Religion and Negative Virtue. Negative virtue sets out like the Pharisee with " God, I thank thee;" it is a piece of religious pageantry, a jointed baby dressed up gay, but, stripped of its gewgaws, it appears a naked lump, fit only to please children and deceive fools. 'Tis the hope of the hypocrite, it is a cheat upon the neighbourhood, a dress for without doors, for 'tis of no use within; 'tis a mask put on for a character, and as generally it is used to cheat others, 'tis so ignorantly embraced that we cheat even ourselves with it. In a word, negative virtue is positive vice, at least when it is made use of in any of the two last cases; namely, either as a mask to deceive others, or as a mist to deceive ourselves. If a man were to look back upon it to see in what part he could take up his nest, or lay a foundation of hope for the satisfaction of his mind as to future things, he would find it the most uncomfortable condition to go out of the world with that any man in the world can think. The reason is plain; compare it with the...

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